Hate crimes, or hateful incidents, do occur. For example, when a Democratic Party donor yells “Go back to Haiti” at a black (Jamaican) Republican politician, it should be condemned.
Hate crime hoaxes must also be condemned as a violation of justice — saying “Trump supporters” or “University of Illinois fans” are racist without evidence violates those group’s rights to their reputation. It is even worse when a specific individual is falsely maligned as racist.
While campus race hustlers have once again been busy spreading hate hoaxes, The College Fix has been even busier, staying on top of their claims as much as possible. While many news outlets are quick to rush out stories about how a hate crime occurred, few are willing to do the follow up work to see what really happened.
The College Fix exclusively covered a hateful incident hoax involving a Purdue University basketball player Trey Kaufman-Renn. He claimed in March that his teenage brother, mom, and girlfriend were all subjected to racist language during a game against the University of Illinois. Only problem? It never happened, according to reports obtained by The Fix.
“There was no mention of racial discrimination, just general obnoxiousness,” a University of Illinois official stated. The university never made any statement about this to clear its own name.
Then of course there are the obvious hoaxes, like the student at University of Tennessee who claimed he was “hatecrimed five times in one night.”
Student Jaden Clark told the late Charlie Kirk that “freshman year I was hatecrimed five times in one night. Three of them by Trump supporters.”
Yet Mr. Clark (pictured) was slow to take Kirk up on his effort to use his vast contacts in the Trump administration to ensure the crimes were investigated. The University of Tennessee has also never responded to a Fix inquiry about any reports filed by Clark.
The Fix uncovered other alleged hateful incidents simply by reading documents and filing public records requests.
Four anti-Muslim incidents at Indiana University turn out to be untrue
Muslim students claimed a driver tried to run them over for wearing a hijab. He said he just did not see them in the crosswalk. But the damage was done – an Indiana University report noted many students said they had heard this story.
There are also no corresponding police reports for this claim: “A student reported that a group of students wearing Israeli flags and a Trump flag hit them on the back of their head with a water bottle.”
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